Preface
Vulkan is now an established and flexible multi-platform graphics API. It has been adopted in many industries, including game development, medical imaging, movie productions, and media playback.
Learning about Vulkan is a foundational step to understanding how a modern graphics API works, both on desktop and mobile.
In Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulkan, you will begin by developing the foundations of a rendering framework. You will learn how to leverage advanced Vulkan features to write a modern rendering engine. You will understand how to automate resource binding and dependencies. You will then take advantage of GPU-driven rendering to scale the size of your scenes and, finally, you will get familiar with ray tracing techniques that will improve the visual quality of your rendered image.
By the end of this book, you will have a thorough understanding of the inner workings of a modern rendering engine and the graphics techniques employed to achieve state-of-the-art results. The framework developed in this book will be the starting point for all your future experiments.
